Day 17 - London: Cutty Sark and Tattershell

After our morning/afternoon at Greenwich Mean Time, we walked the town a bit. We saw the Cutty Sark, both in the bottle and IRL

We stopped in the Spanish Galleon, Britain’s oldest brewer, or so the sign says.

We road the Uber Boat up the Thames.

We saw the Tower Bridge, The Tower, Entry to the Traitors’ Gate (with this apostrophe there must’ve been many, many traitors), London Bridge (from beneath it), the Globe Theater (more Shakespeare), the Millennium Bridge, and Big Ben (minus scaffolding!!)

Once we disembarked, we made our way to Tattershall Castle, which is really… a floating bar! You know we were all in on this place. Thank you to Belinda, who is probably still laughing at us, for the recommendation. We were across the Thames from the London Eye and we passed a World War II memorial on the way with the famous quote by Winston Churchill: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few

We sadly left Tattershall Castle to find some dinner and stumbled upon Whitehall Gardens. From the web: The garden laid out in 1875 by George Vulliamy has a wonderful array of shrubbery, bedding displays, mature London plane trees, lime trees and trees of heaven. Three statues stand within grassed islands commemorate William Tyndale (1494-1536), Sir Henry Bartle Frere (1815-1885) and General Sir James Outram (1803-63). Whitehall Gardens offers a hidden oasis enclosed within elaborate railings, reproductions of Bazalgette’s design of 1873. It is also a designated Site of Importance for Natural Conservation for its contribution to wildlife. And of course Emma the Corgi - don’t ask me, I have no idea. Martha says it’s because the Queen has Corgis.